Although rome had sewers, these were only used for public buildings, and only about half public buildings had a sewer line. The reasons for this were that when the river flooded,human waste would back up into buildings and create a digesting, unsanitary mess. There was no garbage service to garbage was either thrown out the window onto the street or stuffed down the toilet. Because rubbish wad thrown out the window street levels slowly increased until buildings were built on top of old garbage.
The issue:
Trash
It was illegal to throw garbage out of a window and hit someone with the rubbish./ Roman rubbish was often left to collect in alleys between buildings in the poorer districts of the city./ It sometimes became so thick that stepping stones were needed./" Unfortunately its functions did not include house-to-house garbage collection, and this led to indiscriminate refuse dumping, even to the heedless tossing of trash from windows./" As a consequence, the street level in the city rose, as new buildings were constructed on top of rubble and rubbish./
Sewage:
Most homes did not have a sewer link because of two reasons, one, when the river flooded human waste would back up into homes and create a disgusting unsanitary mess, two, romans did not have traps in their plumbing, foul odors would drift up into homes.
What to do about it:
Trash:
Get a waste management service with garbage trucks that dispose of garbage 2 times per week into a massive incinerator and then dispose of the ash in the mediterranean sea./ Also, get a recycling service for metal to create weapons and other military goods in the roman empire./
Sewage Put a waste sanitation plant at the end of the cloaca maxima to sanitize waste and pump it into the mediterranean sea./ Enlarge the cloaca maxima to reach all people in the empire./ Pay for free plastic plumbing installation for all houses powered by paid workers, this would stop foul odors from entering homes./ Sanitize all water that is delivered to citizens in a waste sanitation plant./
Modern day Disposal of waste in a landfill involves burying the waste. Incineration is a disposal method in which solid organic wastes are subjected to combustion so as to convert them into residue and gaseous products./ Waste attracts rodents and insects which harbor gastrointestinal parasites, yellow fever, worms, the plague and other conditions for humans./ US citizens produce more than 4 lbs of waste per person per day./ American’s generated 254.7 million tons of solid waste in 2005 and more than half was disposed of in landfills./ Less than 1/4 of the United States garbage is recycled./ The rest is either burned or buried in a landfill./ They were either full or they were contaminating groundwater./
There was no garbage service to garbage was either thrown out the window onto the street or stuffed down the toilet. Because rubbish wad thrown out the window street levels slowly increased until buildings were built on top of old garbage.
The issue:
Trash
It was illegal to throw garbage out of a window and hit someone with the rubbish./
Roman rubbish was often left to collect in alleys between buildings in the poorer districts of the city./ It sometimes became so thick that stepping stones were needed./" Unfortunately its functions did not include house-to-house garbage collection, and this led to indiscriminate refuse dumping, even to the heedless tossing of trash from windows./" As a consequence, the street level in the city rose, as new buildings were constructed on top of rubble and rubbish./
Sewage:
Most homes did not have a sewer link because of two reasons, one, when the river flooded human waste would back up into homes and create a disgusting unsanitary mess, two, romans did not have traps in their plumbing, foul odors would drift up into homes.
What to do about it:
Trash:
Get a waste management service with garbage trucks that dispose of garbage 2 times per week into a massive incinerator and then dispose of the ash in the mediterranean sea./ Also, get a recycling service for metal to create weapons and other military goods in the roman empire./
Sewage
Put a waste sanitation plant at the end of the cloaca maxima to sanitize waste and pump it into the mediterranean sea./ Enlarge the cloaca maxima to reach all people in the empire./ Pay for free plastic plumbing installation for all houses powered by paid workers, this would stop foul odors from entering homes./ Sanitize all water that is delivered to citizens in a waste sanitation plant./
Modern day
Disposal of waste in a landfill involves burying the waste. Incineration is a disposal method in which solid organic wastes are subjected to combustion so as to convert them into residue and gaseous products./ Waste attracts rodents and insects which harbor gastrointestinal parasites, yellow fever, worms, the plague and other conditions for humans./ US citizens produce more than 4 lbs of waste per person per day./ American’s generated 254.7 million tons of solid waste in 2005 and more than half was disposed of in landfills./ Less than 1/4 of the United States garbage is recycled./ The rest is either burned or buried in a landfill./ They were either full or they were contaminating groundwater./